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The dignity of chivalry set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company…The dignitie of chiualrie set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company…
The dignity of chivalry set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, June xiij. 1626. By William Gouge, B. of Divinity and preacher of Gods Word, in Black-friars London.The dignitie of chiualrie set forth in a sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London, Iune xiij. 1626. By William Gouge, B. of Diuinity and preacher of Gods Word, in Black-friers London.
London: printed by George for Ralph Mab, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In the two verses before my Text, it is said, that there were left of the ⟨p. 3⟩1Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizites, and the Hivits, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel: and that being left, they were so brought under, as Solomon made them to pay tribute. They might therefore have been put to any office or work that the King would: yet were not THEY MEN of WAR. They were too mean and unmeet persons, for a function 2so high and honourable. On the contrary, in the words immediately before my Text, it is said, Of the children 3of Israel, did Solomon make no servants for his work. They being men of better note and name, were reserved for a more honourable employment, which my Text thus expresseth, THEY were MEN of WAR: which words are inferred on the former, by way of opposition, with this adversative Particle BUT. They were no servants for work: BUT THEY were MEN of WAR. As 4the meaner and baser sort were made servants for Work, so the better and excellenter sort were made Soldiers ⟨p. 4⟩for War. THEY were MEN of WAR. Nor Hittites, nor Amorites, nor Perizites, nor Hivits, nor Jebusites, BUT Israelites, THEY were MEN of WAR. No Slaves, no Captives, no Aliens, no Foreigners, but Free men, Free-born, Native Subjects, Natural Citizens, THEY were MEN of WAR. Thus this relative Particle [Greek or Hebrew] THEY, as here it is used, is to be taken [Greek or Hebrew] with an excellency, as importing some eminency of the Persons here meant. This choice then of Persons, maketh much to the Dignity of Chivalry.
In the two verses before my Text, it is said, that there were left of the ⟨p. 3⟩1Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizites, and the Hiuits, and the Iebusites, who were not of Israel: and that being left, they were so brought vnder, as Salomon made them to pay tribute. They might therefore haue beene put to any office or worke that the King would: yet were not THEY MEN of WARRE. They were too meane and vnmeet persons, for a function